Somalia has been without functioning government for 18 years, but is hoping to re-establish rule of law under recently-named President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
VOA: standard.2009.04.05
As long as my soul still exists and is functioning it's still me. I'm still around.
只要我的灵魂在,还在运作,我还活着,我还存在。
Here,my body is functioning, but my personality has been destroyed.
这里,我的身体依旧运作,但我的人格已经被破坏了。
Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.
VOA: standard.2009.04.22
But for Aristotle it is not the liberty of the individual so much as the functioning or functional well-being of the city that is the highest priority.
但对亚里士多德而言,并非个人自由,而是城市运作中,或能运作的福利,才是最要优先考虑的事。
Garwood says Gaza's health-care system also is not functioning as well as it could because Israel is preventing many medical professionals from leaving the Gaza Strip.
VOA: standard.2010.06.01
The personal aid isn't a National Security offical but a person always knows what the president's schedule is, has his briefing book, his speech, his man, whatever the president needs to just keep functioning.
私人助理不是国家安全部官员,但是他必须知道,总统的行程如何,拿着他的简报,他的发言,他的人手安排,一切总统维持正常工作,所需要的东西。
Our best science suggests that a well-functioning body can perform these things, can think and plan and fall in love by virtue of the fact that the brain is functioning properly.
现今科学认为,一个运作良好的肉体能够做到以下事情,思考,规划,以及彼此相爱,这都得益于,大脑的正常运作
What I've done is imagine a case in which the personality functioning stops before the rest of the body functioning stops.
现在我要做的只是想象一个,人格功能在生理功能停止前停止的例子。
Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.
假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。
But imagine that what's gone on is there's been decay of the brain structures that underwrite the cognitive functioning.
但这样设想一下,大脑的结构正在败坏,破坏了认知能力。
And details aside,death is a matter of the body breaking, so that it's no longer able to engage in P-functioning.
除开其他细节,死亡只是肉体的破坏,以至于不能再实施人格功能。
Let's just suppose, as seems likely, that none of the P-functioning is occurring, at some point during sleep.
我们就这样设想一下,在睡眠的某个时间点上,没有任何人格功能性。
nd I am a body,then presumably the straightforward answer at least is going to be I die when my body stops functioning.
指的是我的肉体,那么最直接的答案,就是我的肉体停止运作的时候。
And so a person is just a P-functioning body, whether you emphasize the body side there or the personality side of that equation.
人就是有着人格功能的肉体,无论强调人格部分还是肉体部分。
When all goes well, the body is also capable of engaging in higher order personal P-functioning.
当一切都正常时,肉体就能拥有高级的人格功能性。
Your P-functioning is actualized now, because you're engaged in thought, but you don't lose the ability to think during those moments when you're not thinking.
你的能力正在被实践,是因为你正在思考,但你没有在思考的时候也没有,失去思考的能力。
So the proposal that death is a matter of permanent cessation of P-functioning versus temporary, that doesn't seem like it's going to do the trick.
所以说死亡只永久地,停止人格功能性的这个说法,也不是正确的。
In the normal case,I'm in a car accident or whatever it is, and my body stops functioning,my personality stops functioning, and you're left with a corpse.
通常,在车祸或者什么情况作用下,我的生理功能和人格功能同时停止,剩下的就是一具尸体。
It's okay if you're not P-functioning, as long as your not P-functioning is temporary.
没有人格功能性是可以的,只要这个阶段是暂时的。
Or we could say that a person is a body that is P-functioning.
或者,我们可以说,人就是具有人类能力的肉体
And to be dead then, is to be unable to engage in P-functioning.
而死亡就是,失去了人格功能性。
That is, the more familiar humdrum event of death here your body ceases functioning and you end up having a corpse that gets buried and so forth.
这是死亡最常见的单调的形式,肉体停止一切功能,人最终成为尸体,放进棺材埋葬。
All right,so this is something that's-- If the personality function's been destroyed, can't be recovered,can't be fixed, but the rest of the bodily functioning is still going on.
如果有这样的例子-,人格功能被破坏,无法修复,但剩下的生理功能仍在继续。
The mind is just the proper P-functioning of the body.
心灵也只是肉体所拥有的一项特殊的能力
Well, that's at least an improvement, because then we say, look, while you're asleep, even though there's no P-functioning going on, the lack of P-functioning is temporary, so you're still alive.
这至少算是个改进,因为我们能说,看,你睡着了,即便没有任何人格功能性发生,人格功能性的缺少是暂时的,就说明你还活着。
If we say that to be a person is to be a P-functioning body, it seems then as though we have to conclude that when you're not P-functioning, you're dead.
如果说人是一个有人格功能性的实体,似乎就能得出以下结论,如果你没有人格功能性,你就是死亡的。
Is it body functioning or personality functioning?
是生理功能还是人格功能呢?
A person,after all,is just a body that's functioning in the right way so as to do these person tricks.
一个人说到底就是肉体的功能,用合适的方式发挥出来。
As physicalist we can still say that the bases of personality is that there're bodies, there're functioning in certain ways.
作为物理主义学者我们认为,人格的基础还是肉体的存在,肉体的存在有很多个性。
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